A sourcebook of Nasca ceramic iconography : reading a culture through its art
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Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press
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2006
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 236 p., ]15[ p. of plates : ill. )some col.(, maps ; 29 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]211[-228( and index
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Donald A. Proulx
CONTENTS NOTE
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Overview of the Nasca culture -- Nasca pottery and its artistic canons -- The discovery of the Nasca style and its chronological placement -- Approaches to the interpretation of Nasca iconography -- A description and interpretation of the major themes in Nasca ceramic iconography -- New insights on Nasca society